Microsoft Visual Studio
2008
Microsoft®
Visual Studio® 2008 delivers on the Microsoft vision of smart client
applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications
that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio
2008, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze
information to help them make effective business decisions. Visual Studio 2008
enables organizations of every size to rapidly create more secure, manageable,
and reliable applications that take advantage of Windows Vista™ and the 2007
Office system.
Product information
Visual
Studio 2008 delivers key advances for developers in three primary pillars:
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Rapid
application development
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Effective
team collaboration
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Break
through user experiences
Visual
Studio 2008 provides advanced development tools, debugging features, database
functionality, and innovative features for quickly creating tomorrow's
cutting-edge applications across a variety of platforms.
Visual
Studio 2008 includes enhancements such as visual designers for faster
development with the .NET Framework 3.5, substantial improvements to Web
development tools and language enhancements that speed development with all
types of data. Visual Studio 2008 provides developers with all the tools and
framework support required to create compelling, expressive, AJAX-enabled Web
applications.
Developers
will be able to take advantage of these rich client-side and server-side,
frameworks to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with
any back-end data provider, run within any modern browser, and have complete
access to ASP.NET application services and the Microsoft platform.
Rapid
Application Development
To help developers rapidly create modern software, Visual Studio 2008 delivers
improved language and data features, such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ),
that make it easier for individual programmers to build solutions that analyze
and act on information.
Visual
Studio 2008 also provides developers with the ability to target multiple
versions of the .NET Framework from within the same development environment.
Developers will be able to build applications that target the .NET Framework
2.0, 3.0 or 3.5, meaning that they can support a wide variety of projects in
the same environment.
Break
Through User Experience
Visual Studio 2008 offers developers new tools that speed creation of connected
applications on the latest platforms including the Web, Windows Vista, Office
2007, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008. For the Web, ASP.NET AJAX and
other new technologies will enable developers to quickly create a new
generation of more efficient, interactive, and personalized Web experiences.
Effective
Team Collaboration
Visual Studio 2008 delivers expanded and improved offerings that help improve
collaboration in development teams, including tools that help integrate
database professionals and graphic designers into the development process.
Use
the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
The .NET Framework enables the rapid construction of connected applications
that provide outstanding end-user experiences by providing the building blocks
(pre-fabricated software) for solving common programming tasks. Connected
applications built on the .NET Framework model business processes effectively
and facilitate the integration of systems in heterogeneous environments.
Together
Visual Studio and the .NET Framework reduce the need for common plumbing code,
reducing development time and enabling developers to concentrate on solving
business problems.
The
.NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the .NET Framework 3.0. Enhancements
have been made to feature areas including the base class library, Windows
Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation
Foundation, and Windows CardSpace.
